Category Archives: Battle Creek News
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office looking for a few good people to join their reserves
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office Reserve Division is accepting applications for the 2023 Reserve Academy. The Reserves are a support unit for the Sheriff's Office ma...
Jun 09, 2022 Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office (Photo by John McNeil)
Faris resigns as BC vice mayor as family will be moving out of town
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - There's a vacancy on the Battle Creek City Commission. Battle Creek Vice Mayor Kaytee Faris announced her immediate resignation during Tuesday night's City Commission me...
Jun 09, 2022
McCann introduces resolution to allow 17-year-olds to vote in primary elections
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- State Senator Sean McCann (D-Kalamazoo) introduced a joint resolution on Wednesday, June 8, to allow 17-year-olds to vote in an August primary as long as they will be 18 ...
Jun 08, 2022 Michigan State Senator Sean McCann
Two road construction projects starting in Calhoun County over the next couple of weeks
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Drivers are being alerted to a pair of road construction projects that will begin in Calhoun County over the next couple of weeks. Construction will begin Monday in Ne...
Jun 08, 2022
Calhoun County Public Health Department moving its Albion location
ALBION, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Calhoun County Public Health Department has announced they are relocating its Albion location to the Cram Building at 115 Market Place starting on July 5, 2022. A press re...
Jun 08, 2022 Courtesy Calhoun County Public Health Department
19-year-old credited with saving two men from Calhoun County drowning
HOMER, MI (WTVB) - A 19-year-old Homer man is being credited by the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office with saving two other men from drowning last Friday afternoon. The Calhoun County Marine Patrol and ...
Jun 07, 2022
Larceny investigation in Calhoun County turns up large amounts of stolen items to include vehicles, watercraft, and trailers
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A big haul for Calhoun County Sheriff's deputies on Saturday, June 4 as they turned up multiple stolen items to include several vehicles, watercraft, and trailers du...
Jun 07, 2022
United Way and Kellogg's team up for Summer Stock Up supporting food banks
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- United Way of South Central Michigan is joining with the Michigan Association of United Ways, the Kellogg Company and local United Ways statewide in a two-week virtual ef...
Jun 07, 2022 United Ways of South Central Michigan logo. (Image courtesy United Ways of South Central Michigan).
Kalamazoo Central High School students protest possible overturning of Roe v Wade
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Around 300 Kalamazoo Central High School students walked out of class on Tuesday, June 7, to exercise their right protest. The students left the building and went outside...
Jun 07, 2022 Kalamazoo Central High School - Google Street View
Battle Creek woman turns herself in and is charged in boyfriend's murder
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Battle Creek woman is charged with murder after police say she brutally attacked her partner back in April of this year. Authorities say Markisha Srackangast, who tu...
Jun 07, 2022 Photo from the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
